World War Two began with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Adolf Hitler used a propaganda lie as a pretext to strike. It was a historical turning point that still has relevance for today.

The artist died in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland the following year. More than 77,000 Czech and Moravian Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime during the occupation. Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler at ...

Poland's previous right-wing government demanded $1.3 trillion in damages from Germany. Tusk's current Cabinet has toned the demand down to some form of compensation that could serve to strengthen ...

Though long threatened, Poland was in no way prepared to face Hitler’s war machine when it finally attacked. Replete with tanks and planes, his would be a new kind of warfare. So, on the 10th of ...

as it meant the USSR would not oppose a German invasion of Poland, which Britain and France had promised to defend 1, 3 Events In September, Hitler demanded that the German speaking part of ...

Gawronkiewicz signed the work as Gawron. The first part deals with Nazi German occupation of Poland’s capital and terminates hours before the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. The following part of the ...

It looks at the origins of the conflict; the course of the war, from the partition of Poland to the fall of Berlin; war crimes; Nazi occupation regimes; local collaboration and the recruitment of ...

His cunning and incredible luck helped him survive the German occupation of Poland, as well as a hair-raising tour of duty in the Soviet Red Army toward the close of the war. Finishing medical ...